What did old Malcolm X say about the media again? Something about the media's purpose being to make you hate the oppressed and love the oppressor?

It's actually somewhat difficult to tell which aspects of US policing wasn't born out of the slave patrol. I guess you could say that the Texas Rangers is an aspect that wasn't born out of it... it was born out of the need to commit pogroms and generalized genocide against Native Americans.

...and again, and again, and again...

Israel is bound by international law

Has anyone informed Israel of this?

Nobody is in the clear right and nobody is blameless.

No matter what anyone has done - it is Israel (and it's western backers) that carries full responsibility for what occurs here. Period.

There never was a feeling of invulnerability, but rather of containment and a tolerable level.

I was referring to the propaganda we were fed about Israel during the Cold War - you can still see it in a lot of right-wing narratives about Israel.

You learn to live with a certain amount of risk.

Here in South Africa, we call it "laager mentality" - in the US, wars fade into the background, but in places like Israel (and Apartheid-South Africa) the "open-ended-war-with-no-end-in-sight" cannot fade into the background. And, eventually, it leads to... consequences.

What this attack shattered was the feeling that Hamas is a threat that could simply be managed and ignored.

It's not Hamas - it's Palestinians. Before Hamas it was the PLO, and if Israel (somehow) neutralises Hamas there will be another "big bad" Israelis will have to live in fear of. Israelis know that - they just prefer referring to Hamas to deflect from the fact that their colonial war has always been against the entirety of Palestinians.

But yes... this attack has most definitely shattered the idea of "containment and a tolerable level."

Unfortunately, I think the Israeli leadership will only take the first lesson.

A colonialist project can only act like a colonialist project - if it doesn't, the colonialist state must cease to exist in it's current form and become something else.

The comparisons to the Warsaw Uprising is apt.

Some would even say that it's ironic... but that's only if you don't understand what Israel has really always been about. It truly is a kapo state.

Not socialism.

The fact that the US considers Oreos edible is enough reason to resist US neocolonialism.

Judging by the pro-fash bootlickers infesting this post it sure looks like Israel's shill farms have wasted no time slithering onto Lemmy.

Qatar literally provides shelter to the leaders of the Hamas, a globally recognized terrorist organization.

Have these same people who classify Hamas as a "globally recognized terrorist organization" classified Israel as a terrorist state?

No?

Then their "classifications" isn't worth shit, is it now?

Qatar is openly hostile to Israel.

So is anyone with a fully-functional brain. What is your point?